geoviki | Let's hear it for the boys!

Amidst all the chaos of posting Delicate Sound of Thunder, I never had a chance to show off all the icons

ravurian made for me; just the primary Harry and Draco one. Aren't these great? Isn't he talented? The one of Sully (post-Daniel make-over) is too much!

And it got me thinking... I always think of new LJ names as default female, but there are a plethora of men in HP fandom, too. So here's an attempt to list the ones I know. Let's hope I don't wholly embarrass myself by putting someone in the wrong column (or hope that I can edit fast enough so you won't notice). And I want you to help, too, by adding the guys you know of in the comments, 'k?

arrmaitee,

black_dog,

copperbadge (aka Sam Vimes),

danxsunday,

idiotic_savant,

jexay,

kayen (aka Andreas),

nopejr,

nothingbutfic (aka Abaddon),

pauraque (aka Eodrakken),

petulantgod,

phreid,

ravurian,

son_of_darkness,

tipgardner,

titanic_days (aka AlexMalfoy).

ETA:

aegeus,

ap_aelfwine,

bookofjude,

cadeyrn,

coffeesama,

dalhessian,

dadelius,

emeraldjay,

folk (aka John),

flyngaimlessly,

lightnote_blend,

jcalanthe,

jiggery_pokery,

jonem,

kenboy,

malachan,

mark356,

owlman,

petulans,

portkey,

slowfox,

stanharding,

stormwynd,

the_gentleman,

tromboneborges,

wemyss,

ziggy1278

ETA Jan 2006:

anothersuperboy,

clsgraduate,

daddybear716,

flayer_of_minds,

kelvinyip,

onlydeepwithin,

tm_nicholas,

xtremewiccan

	Sully by Ravurian
	Carr and Snape by Ravurian
	Daniel and Draco by Ravurian
	Dean and Hermione by Ravurian

ETA: Daniel is Ryan Gosling, Hermione is Thora Birch, Dean is Kele Okereke, Carr is Alfred Molina, Snape is Alan Rickman, Harry is Hugh Dancy, and Draco is Boyd Holbrook. I ~~whined about~~ insisted on Boyd; Ravurian selected the others, and I love them.

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i, like you, always assume female, until proven otherwise. most of the fine gentleman you mention i don't know, most of the ones i did know, i knew their gender, only one surprised me.

love the icons. and i just finished dsot (i know, i know, i am soooo behind). love it. i think you should do a whole story with daniel as the center. i love him. have him meet a nice gay wizard. someone with class and style. [*giggle*] honestly though, i love the world and want to see your lovely daniel happy. the story is fabulous, had my hook, line and sinker. even though you gave us all the clues i hadn't figured out what was going on until you spelled (pun not intended) it out. love your writing. completely. adore it. you are v. talented, and you don't rely on jkrs world for your stories, you use hers to texture your world. really, can't bow down to you enough. ♥

>> I wanted to reassure them they were not alone in case anyone was feeling marginalized. <<
*grins* Awww, that's sweet. :D

Scientific bent is good! (Really, how could I claim otherwise? *laughs*)

Well, I'd thought of collecting the whole set

Like the Chocolate Frog cards? (backtracks in case misunderstood)

Avoiding male fan marginalisation is a noble aim indeed, although I am a bit disappointed - I would have been quite willing to round up the torches and pitchforks for the hunting down and detailed questioning.

Thank you! Added more boys.

Thank you! Comments. Yeah, I live for them. I never thought I'd feel like begging readers for them, but damn, it's so silent there on Skyehawke. Glad to hear you liked it. Er, loved it!

Happy birthday! Thanks for the boys! I can't remember if I ever knew mark356 was a guy. I'm careful becasue of marksykins!

Your icon never fails to give me a warm, fuzzy feeling - when I was home after the birth of my first child (now pushing 19) I got hooked on reruns of Bewitched, of all things. Must have been hormonal.

I bet I squealed louder, and I'm even older!

Added. It's fun collecting boys. Er. Boys' names, I mean.

I'm amazed at how many guys there really are. Added.

There are far more of you male types than I suspected. Go, you!

Oh, I wouldn't let you do that. There are too many on this list who are Really Wonderful Fanboys. ;-)

Now, see, I've seen your name round these parts and never knew that you were he. Cool.

Isn't Sully wonderful? Ravurian gave me a large picture of this, but it's overwhelming! Didn't want to give anyone a heart attack.

Thank you. I never expected Daniel to be as popular as he's proving to be. It's a nice surprise. Maybe he can pick someone from the gay fans in this list (although not all are gay, of course.) I envision Daniel as someone who attracts men with his enthusiasm and sparkle, so I bet he won't be single for long. Maybe I'll recycle poor Levon from the last book, who was also treated so cavalierly by that cynical author-woman.

*waves* Thanks for birthday greetings! :)

Mmm, Bewitched. So silly, so much fun. *attempts nose-twitch, just for the hell of it*

*lol* good thinking. Icon size is just perfect for her. hee!

I bet I squealed louder, and I'm even older!

It only goes to show that we're both young at heart. :)

I was also curious as to your reasons for this post, and the breakdown; how are you defining fandom? do you mean both slash and het discourse? it looks that way. how then do the male participants break down in terms of that? it's a long held belief that slash fandom of course, is predominantly female, and that men in fandom conversely tend to hang around het (statistically most men are straight, therefore straight men do the het stuff.) it'd be interesting to see who identifies as a slasher/hetter/general fanficcer vs. gender identity or sexuality, and also who has written what: for example, male fen (me) who tends to write a lot of slash fic (but has also written het and femslash and gen) and as a result, objects to terms such as slash and slasher.

or you could just not bother. *G*

Hahaha! You put my scientific curiosity to shame!

I wasn't thinking categories much, although I confess to some curiosity there. I could see where semantic arguments might become the focus (Just how slashy a writer are you? And just how gay are you? And what about the artists, who are always forgotten?)

I suppose I was starting to notice that I interact with more and more men on LJ and it occurred to me that with the anonymity of many of our usernames, there might be even more that I was unaware of. And one of my good male LJ friends was feeling a bit left out last week during a discussion on someone else's LJ where it was assumed everyone there was female.

(And BTW, welcome. I've read your LJ for a long time, and it's nice to have you here).

I think the semantics would be interesting: to see how people envision concepts like 'slash' and what not.

(You read my LJ? Back to hiding under the desk again.)

I suppose the most pithy reason for this is to decide whether or not to post the "whining about menopause" entries. That's a negatory, cap'n.

I friended your journal when I was such a newbie... a wee little fan.

Love this icon...yow!

Maybe a filter? I have a filter for TMI and sexuality stuff.

Aww, but then I have been here a very long time. Some may say too long. ;)

I suppose I have an LJ filter in my brain that says "Who the hell cares about this but you, geoviki? No one, so leave it."

It reminds me of someone I used to work with, who was Mr. World-Famous Tectonic Geologist. We peer-review all our publications, and he commented to one poor sucker: "Why don't you just xerox this paper and give it to the two other people on the planet who'd care?" Ouch! (He was fairly nice to me because he disrespected my boss almost as much as I did.)

And I should say: not having read the fic, but the Daniel bloke sounds damn hot ;)

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